A forerunner of the post-painterly abstraction movement, contemporary artist Gary Komarin approaches each composition with a pure openness to inspiration. With every brushstroke, he builds a visual interpretation of his mindset in that moment, never knowing what he's going to paint next. Komarin asserts that, for him, "the best paintings are the paintings that paint themselves."
Komarin invites risk into his abstract work, and employs daring in every element of his pieces. From his adventurous deployment of spackle and house paint as mediums to his playful use of color and imperfect lines, he pulls forms from a backdrop of consciousness, rather than merely delivering images to a surface. He enjoys instilling a child's sense of wonder into his abstractions and still-lifes, invoking a toddler's experience of "seeing things without knowing what they are."
Born in New York City, Komarin is the son of a Czech architect and Austrian author. He attended art school at Boston University, where painter Phillip Guston became a mentor. Much of Komarin's work nods to Guston, without mimicking or replicating the latter’s signature cartoonish style.
Komarin has exhibited in the United States, Asia, the United Kingdom and throughout continental Europe. In 1996, his work was included in an exhibition at 41 Green Street in New York. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts grant in painting, the Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting and the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship. Komarin lives in rural Connecticut, where he continues to create new work.
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Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
$15,807
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas , 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Canvas, Oil
$15,807
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$15,807
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$15,807
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$15,807
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas , 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas , 2025 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small canvas , 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas , 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas , 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin...
Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
A Wilder Blue
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description of something timeless. For painter Gary Komarin, abstraction has never been a formal dead end. Rather, it has allowed him to challenge the limitations of the style - to make painting ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable image excludes too much. Komarin has been called a “painter’s painter”. His status in this regard is based on the authenticity of his work, its deep connection to the tradition of Modern painting as well as its sustained individuality as an utterly personal voice. Like many of the best artists of his generation he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Komarin has been particularly successful at filtering these influences through his own potent iconography. “From these seemingly unlovely methods Komarin gets paintings that vibrate with historical memory, echoing such things as Matisse’s driest most empty pictures. Robert Motherwell’s spare abstractions of the 1970’s, or the early New Mexico and Berkeley paintings...
Enamel
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (yellow on green)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America Sarah S. King July 2003 Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image...
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (white on blue)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America Sarah S. King July 2003 Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are...
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (green on pink)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America Sarah S. King July 2003 Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are...
Oil
Price Upon Request
Duke and Wigmore Series #1
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic qu...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$6,132
H 24 in W 18 in D 2 in
Urban Landscape Painting of the Town Hall in Accrington in the North of England
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Urban Landscape Painting of the Town Hall in Accrington in the North of England by Leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 18 x 24 inches Accrington Town...
Canvas, Wood, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
$549Sale Price|20% Off
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 0.12 in
Original-Magic Bell-British Awarded Artist-Abstract Expression-oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
In her 2024 series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing the...
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$143,400
H 48 in W 36 in D 2 in
Mother & Child Oil Painting on Canvas, Abstract Figurative, 2016
By Christopher Mudgett
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mother & Child, 2016 By Christopher Mudgett This powerful and emotive original oil painting from the artist's 2016 "Mother & Child" series encapsulates a profound moment of ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,132
H 18 in W 24 in D 2 in
Colourful Urban Landscape Painting of the town of Accrington in North of England
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Urban Landscape Painting of the town of Accrington in North of England by Leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches Colourful urba...
Canvas, Wood, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
$2,721
H 23.63 in W 39.38 in D 0.12 in
Original Diptych-Jardin d'Hiver Moonlit Series-British Awarded Artist-Dahlias
Located in London, GB
[Jardin d'Hiver] is Shizico Yi's on-going series, created in her winter studio while savouring for the summer left behind. This diptych included one evening scene of the last full m...
Gold Leaf
$6,116
H 18 in W 24 in D 2 in
Urban Landscape Painting of the Victorian Arcade of Accrington Northern England
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Urban Landscape Painting of the Victorian Arcade of Accrington Northern England by Leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches Victorian Arcad...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Wood Panel, Board
$6,116
H 18 in W 24 in D 2 in
Impressionistic Painting of Village Pub the "Sun Inn" in Dent in Yorkshire Dales
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionistic Painting of Village Pub the "Sun Inn" in Dent in Yorkshire Dales by Leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches A quietly evoc...
Canvas, Wood, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
$6,803
H 23 in W 29 in D 2 in
Colourful Urban Landscape Painting of the town of Accrington in North of England
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Urban Landscape Painting of the town of Accrington in North of England by Leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measure 2...
Canvas, Wood, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
$1,608Sale Price|35% Off
H 25.6 in W 17.72 in D 1.42 in
Original-Primary Blue-White Butterfly-British Awarded Artist-Free frame service
Located in London, GB
* Frame included measurement include the frame. * Guarantee Free Shipping Worldwide by Royal Mail with End to End International Tracking. -We offer you Artist's Lifetime Warranty for...
Silver
$20,340
H 12 in W 12 in D 2 in
Woman Oil on Canvas Portrait, Grayscale Abstract, Contemporary, 2015
By Christopher Mudgett
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Woman, 2015 Christopher Mudgett Woman (2015) is a striking portrait that distills the essence of the female face into an elegant interplay of line, form, and tone. Executed in oil o...
Canvas, Oil
No Name 55, Mixed Media Painting on Linen
By Andrea Gallotti
Located in New York City, NY
Italian painter Andrea Gallotti’s practice is rooted in the quiet rigor of repetition, a deliberate return to a gesture so simple it borders on the childlike, yet so subtle that its ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$125,400
H 48 in W 36 in D 2 in
Woman with Clasped Hands, Contemporary Oil on Canvas, 48x36, 2017
By Christopher Mudgett
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Woman with Clasped Hands, 2017 by Christopher Mudgett A striking embodiment of strength and introspection, Woman with Clasped Hands (2017) challenges traditional portrayals of the f...
Canvas, Oil
CAKE (dark blue)
By Gary Komarin
Located in White Plains, NY
"CAKE (dark blue)" by Gary Komarin, 2015, acrylic on paperbag, 24 x 18 inches. This painting features the cream colored outline of a two tiered cake on a dark blue field with the word Cake above it painted on paperbags. Born in 1951 in New York City, Gary Komarin is an American artist living and working in Connecticut and New York City. Like many of the best artists of his generation, he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University. Komarin has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia. In 2008, he had a solo museum exhibition at the Musee Kiyoharu Shirakaba in Japan. In 1996, Komarin’s work was included in a pivotal exhibition at 41 Greene Street, New York, NY where his work was shown with the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Philip Guston and Bill Traylor...
Acrylic
Cake Stacked Brown on Blue
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America Sarah S. King July 2003 Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are...
Enamel